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PINNED Configure maintenance flyouts
User interface settings include the option “Show maintenance notes”. How can I as onprem-backend administrator configure and switch on such flyouts to inform my users about upcoming maintenance?
PINNED Reduce Instana infrastructure footprint by reducing metrics resolution
First, we installed on self-hosted Instana Backend on Docker (on-premies). However, the backend didn't respond to the production load and lost monitoring data. Then, We decided to go forward with Openshift Installation. However, the recommended Op...

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Improve usability of "Process Top List"

When I open a host dashboard, obviously the newest available “Top Process List” is shown, that is inside the selected timerange. It would be very useful in troubleshooting, if we could flexibly select the interesting timestamp of the “Process Top ...
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Infrastructure 0 Future consideration

Application Perspective: Sorting by infrastructure

Currently it is not possible to sort the table in infrastructure-tab of services and APs by the first column
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 1 Not under consideration

Instana Agent minimal requirements pre-req check and notification

Instana Agent minimal requirements pre-req check and notification
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities 2 Not under consideration

Support for MaprFS

The filesystems are not mounted but show up using iostat. Please make it visible in instana. Reference for MaprFS (https://docs.datafabric.hpe.com/60/MapROverview/c_maprfs.html)
over 1 year ago in Instana / Extend Capabilities / Sensor 2 Planned for future release

Ability to report Namespace quota and suggest quota values based on formula

My customer's challenge is that their OpenShift clusters are full in Request while actual resource consumption is very low. There are thousands of namespaces with request quotas in their environment. They would like to have Turbonomic identify the...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Container Platforms (K8s & OpenShift) 2 Planned for future release

Documentation on the policies created dynamically

We don't have documentation on policies Turbonomic creates on the fly based on the target environment configuration/setttings e.g. ASG, compliance policies, k8s env policies etc. Can we have this documented to understand whats learnt from each env...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Documentation 0 Future consideration

API: Support EntityId->Host parameter in query to get all Snapshots of a single Host

Introduction: In an Enterprise Context, Instana contains valueable informations about running software on single machines or clusters, when an Agent is installed. With the current API it is hard to replicate UI functionalities, like showing all pr...
over 1 year ago in Instana / API-C / Infrastructure 2 Functionality already exists

Exclude Citrix provision VMs from Citrix cloud in Azure resource group from the Turbonomic licensing

Azure VDI VMs do not count towards the Turbonomic license since 8.5.2 but Citrix provision VMs from Citrix Cloud in Azure resource group has calculated as of now. So Azure resource group which manages Citrix VDIs should not be counting in Turbonomic
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Public Cloud IaaS 2 Planned for future release

Turbonomic Health Alert Monitoring at Application/Instance level

We would like to enable instance-level monitoring to know the health alert status of the running Turbonomic application. In other words, users should get notified through automated email notification immediately if something goes wrong with the Tu...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Target Support 2

Allow for local administrative login while utilizing SSO/MFA

When using MFA/SSO with Turbonomic it will only allow for login via that MFA/SSO provider. If something changes or the login no longer functions, it is then impossible to access the Turbonomic UI. I believe it would be a good idea to leave some so...
over 1 year ago in IBM Turbonomic ARM / Authentication & Security 1 Not under consideration